Ana Brnabić

Her father Zoran was born in Užice in 1950 and finished his studies in Belgrade, where the family lived.

Her paternal grandfather Anton Brnabić, an ethnic Croat Yugoslav military officer, was born in Stara Baška on the Croatian island of Krk, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (present-day Croatia).

He fought with the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II and was ranked lieutenant colonel after the war.

Her maternal grandparents are from Babušnica, southeastern Serbia.

Brnabić declared herself a Serb.

Ana Brnabić (Ана Брнабић, ; born 28 September 1975) is a Serbian politician serving as the prime minister of Serbia since 2017.

She is the first woman, first openly gay, and longest-serving person to hold the office.

She was active in the foundation of the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) in 2006.

During that engagement, she participated in the introduction of the concept of local economic development in Serbia and building of potentials of municipalities to improve the business environment at the local level with active promotion of investments.

She became a member, and thereafter the president, of the managing board of NALED.

Brnabić is a lesbian, the second female LGBT head of government in the world following Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (Iceland 2009–13), and fifth openly LGBT head of government overall following Jóhanna, Elio Di Rupo (Belgium 2011–14), Xavier Bettel (Luxembourg 2013–2023), and Leo Varadkar (Ireland 2017–20, 2022–present).

She entered government as the minister of public administration and local self-government from 11 August 2016 until 29 June 2017, under prime minister Aleksandar Vučić and acting prime minister Ivica Dačić.

In this role, Brnabić initiated reforms of central government services in Serbia.

In August 2016, she was appointed as the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government.

In addition, she is the president of the Council for Innovative Entrepreneurship and Information Technologies of the Government of Serbia, as well as of the Republic Council for National Minorities and the vice president of the Republic Council for Public Administration Reform.

Brnabić described herself as a pro-European and technocratic prime minister.

She explained that the priorities for her government are modernization, education reform and digitization.

On the other hand, she has been criticised because she is the head of a conservative and nationalist government which also includes openly anti-Western and pro-Russian ministers.

After he was inaugurated as the president of Serbia on 31 May 2017, Vučić proposed Brnabić as his successor in June 2017.

Brnabić and her cabinet were voted into office on 29 June 2017 by a majority of 157 out of 250 members of the National Assembly of Serbia.

In 2017, she became the first head of government from the Balkan region to attend a gay pride march when she attended the Belgrade Pride.

In May 2018, Brnabić took over the Ministry of Finance until the new Minister was appointed, following the resignation of Dušan Vujović.

On 29 May 2018, she appointed Siniša Mali as Vujović's successor on that position.

On 26 July 2018, Brnabić hosted a ceremony at the United States Congress in Washington, which was held to mark the 100th anniversary of raising the Serbian flag in front of the White House.

Elected as a non-partisan politician, she joined the ruling Serbian Progressive Party in 2019, and was subsequently elected as vice president in 2021.

In 2019, Brnabić was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 88th most powerful woman in the world and as the 19th most powerful female political and policy leader.

Some observers believe that she has no political power in line with the constitutional role of chief of the executive, arguing instead that Vučić wields power in his capacity as the president.

Brnabić was born in Belgrade.

In 2019, her partner Milica Đurđić gave birth to a boy; Brnabić is the first openly gay prime minister whose partner gave birth while the prime minister was in office.

Brnabić was raised in Belgrade, Serbia, where she attended the Belgrade Fifth Gymnasium.

In addition to her Serbian education, Brnabić holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) diploma of Northwood University, Michigan, USA, and an MBA of the University of Hull, England, UK, and worked for over a decade with international organizations, foreign investors, local self-government units, and the public sector in Serbia.

Prior to Brnabić's appointment to the Government of Serbia, she was director of Continental Wind Serbia, where she worked on the implementation of the investment of €300 million into a windpark in Kovin.

She was a member of the managing board of the non-profit foundation Peksim.

She has been engaged in different US consulting companies that implemented USAID-financed projects in Serbia.

She was deputy manager of the Serbia Competitiveness Project, the expert on the Local Self-government Reform Program in Serbia and the senior coordinator of the Program of Economic Development of Municipalities.

In October 2019, the Prime Minister confirmed she had joined the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.

On 25 October 2019, Brnabić signed a Free Trade Agreement between Serbia and the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), extending the list of Serbian products that can be exported to the EAEU territory.

The National Assembly re-elected her into office after the 2020 and 2022 elections.

After the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Serbia in March 2020, Brnabić was appointed for the head of the Health Crisis Committee.

After president Vučić declared a state of emergency on 15 March, the government issued regulations on measures during a state of emergency with the aim of suppressing the consequences of the outbreak.